Gasoline wrote:
Hearing folks talk about Pikes Peak, a question came to mind. In Gravity Racing, do the folks consider chilly & damp at the summit normal, and talk about how hot it is at the bottom?
Gasoline wrote:
Hearing folks talk about Pikes Peak, a question came to mind. In Gravity Racing, do the folks consider chilly & damp at the summit normal, and talk about how hot it is at the bottom?
PHeller wrote:Gasoline wrote:The shifter kart sans engine in that picture is kinda what i had in mind for a electric assisted pedal cart.
As simple as it gets to bomb a hill.
Wheelbarrow seat
Jay wrote:friedgreencorrado wrote: Mt. Sharp in focus. About 6-7km away at the base, per the news conference today they think they're about 16km from the summit (not that they're planning to drive *all* the way up). Dang, what a camera. Michael Malin seems to have built a "HiRise" for the surface.Holy berkeleying E36 M3! I think that is now one of my favourite Mars photos ever. Right-click-save. Okay, it's impossible to say with 100% certainty from a single photo, but... if there wasn't a giant water ocean here in the past, I will eat my hat. Those are clearly sedimentary layers which were deposited out of solution, then subsequently eroded away. Some contrarian scientists will undoubtedly make a lot of noise about how that could have been formed by lava or wind, but just look at it. Then look at the Grand Canyon here on Earth. Tell me this isn't the same thing. No extra hotlink from me. This one stands on its own.
Malin says he likes to white-balance stuff as if the atmosphere was Earth's instead of Mars'. He says it helps the science team see things like the layers. All I can say is that if a layman like me can see them, the science team must be telling the drivers to "floor it!" If anyone's curious, here's a shot that's closer to what it would look like if you were standing there.
And now, back to your previously scheduled gravity racing! I think this one looks like a Protofab FV!
Hey, fellow BMXers.
This Outlaw Soapbox Derby car:
Gasoline wrote:
Belongs to this guy:
Thought this was true gravity racing....
Gasoline wrote:Anti-stance wrote: I have wanted to build a soapbox car but just do not know where to go use it or local clubs. When I would google soapbox, that damn Red Bull E36 M3 would come up.Build a kart. There are other guys in the area also. These guys I have talked to on Ga. Hills. http://www.youtube.com/user/bodrodz/videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXNKGtbQws8&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1u0FTpVT4&feature=context-gch
Last video looks like hwy 52/hwy near Ft. Mtn. State park. I'm down!
There is one of these for sale across the road from my work with black wheels and blacked out grill in this color. Strangely cool looking.
poopshovel wrote:Gasoline wrote:Last video looks like hwy 52/hwy near Ft. Mtn. State park. I'm down!Anti-stance wrote: I have wanted to build a soapbox car but just do not know where to go use it or local clubs. When I would google soapbox, that damn Red Bull E36 M3 would come up.Build a kart. There are other guys in the area also. These guys I have talked to on Ga. Hills. http://www.youtube.com/user/bodrodz/videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXNKGtbQws8&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1u0FTpVT4&feature=context-gch
Thats what I was thinking, at that lookout spot. I have ridden my motorcycle on that road a couple of times.
Appleseed wrote:
You know, I read the original Fight Club book after seeing the movie, and was severely disappointed. One of the rare instances where the movie is actually a better telling of the story. The book was flat and lifeless and non-believable.
Anti-stance wrote:poopshovel wrote:Thats what I was thinking, at that lookout spot. I have ridden my motorcycle on that road a couple of times.Gasoline wrote:Last video looks like hwy 52/hwy near Ft. Mtn. State park. I'm down!Anti-stance wrote: I have wanted to build a soapbox car but just do not know where to go use it or local clubs. When I would google soapbox, that damn Red Bull E36 M3 would come up.Build a kart. There are other guys in the area also. These guys I have talked to on Ga. Hills. http://www.youtube.com/user/bodrodz/videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXNKGtbQws8&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1u0FTpVT4&feature=context-gch
Police kicked them off Blood Mountain, but that is a good one.
phaze1todd wrote: Hey, fellow BMXers. This Outlaw Soapbox Derby car:Gasoline wrote:Belongs to this guy:
Ceppie! 
EDIT: too small http://imgur.com/gallery/LwPeG
I would love to build a bike wheeled cart, but lack any form of skill or tool for metal craft.
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